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...alive both intentionally and unintentionally. After all, many women accept secondary, passive roles all the time, asking a man to decide things for her, to fix things for her, to tell her who she is. Doing so is often easy because it relieves a woman of the otherwise inevitable weight of making wrong decisions, of not fixing things, of not always being sure of who she is or what she believes in. While that was understandable a hundred years ago (and still is in many less developed parts of the world), modern women have little excuse. We voice awareness...
...story lies not in the text of the editorial or the critiques it elicited, but in something entirely outside of the authors’ control: the credence the international media has given their grousing and the blind deference to status that such validation represents. For in giving weight to the authors’ most basic assumption—that had Oxford been more accommodating and convenient, it might have satisfied their expectations—the media substantiated the idea, widespread among colleges catering to student whims, that the frustrations of everyday life can diminish the value of the opportunities these...
...Netherlands - two founding members - rejected a draft European constitution, without which political union is impossible. Javier Solana, the E.U.'s estimable foreign affairs czar, may bustle around the Middle East as he has been doing of late, but nobody pretends that when he does so he carries the weight of the U.S. Secretary of State...
...exposure in Blades of Glory won't take anyone by surprise, nor will the plot, but there are plenty of moments when you feel the electricity of Ferrell making things up on the spot. "There's a scene when he's on a treadmill, trying to lose weight while the other characters are having dinner," says Will Speck, who co-directed Blades with Josh Gordon. "There was a lot of plot in it, but then we realize that Will's actually going to have Jon [Heder] throw food at him and that he's going to eat while...
Groopman describes this kind of "attribution error" in the case of a nervous young woman who kept losing weight even when prescribed a high-calorie diet. Her doctors, convinced that she was lying about her food intake, suspected anorexia or bulimia, but her problem, diagnosed after years of ill health, turned out to be celiac disease--an allergy to wheat. Had the patient been male or older or less anxious, the doctors might have got it right in the first place...